How long do we need at Cluny?

Allow two to three hours for the abbey and the Musée d'Art et d'Archéologie in the Palais Jean de Bourbon, which one ticket covers, and as long again for lunch and the town.

Does the driver show us round?

No: your driver drives and waits. The visits are yours, with audio guides in English at Cluny and Tournus, or the sites' own guided tours.

Can we add a tasting?

Yes, on the full plan: the driver by the hour stops wherever you like, and the Mâconnais vineyards are close to Cluny and Tournus.

3 days

Cluny, Tournus and Romanesque Burgundy

Three days in Beaune with a day for Cluny Abbey, by return trip or with the driver by the hour along the Romanesque road from Tournus to Cluny, with transfers from Le Creusot TGV or Lyon, from €810 per car.

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Abbaye de Cluny — Photo: Carsten Steger, CC BY-SA 4.0

Day by day

Cluny was the heart of a monastic order that spread across Europe, and its abbey church the largest in medieval Christendom; Tournus, on the Saône, keeps one of the great Romanesque churches of France. The light plan takes you to Cluny and back for the abbey, its museum and the town. The full plan keeps the driver for ten hours: the abbey church of Tournus, the hilltop village of Brancion, the church of Chapaize, the Château de Cormatin and Cluny Abbey.

Le Creusot TGV station · Light pace

Day 1Arrival and the Collégiale of Beaune

11:00Le Creusot TGV station → BeauneTransfer · your driver meets your train or flight · ≈ 50 minYour driver meets your TGV at Le Creusot TGV, about 1 h 20 from Paris; Beaune in about 50 minutes.€165
15:00Collegiate Church of Notre-Dame, BeauneOn your ownThe Collégiale Notre-Dame of Beaune and the tapestries of its choir.

Day 2Cluny Abbey

09:30Beaune → Cluny AbbeyDriver there, and back later the same day · ≈ 1 h 07 each way · back about 17:45About 1 h 10 south: the abbey and the Musée d'Art et d'Archéologie on one ticket (allow two to three hours), lunch in town, the Haras national; back in Beaune at about 17:45.Cluny Abbey€480

Day 3The way home

11:00Beaune → Le Creusot TGV stationTransfer · ≈ 50 minLe Creusot TGV in about 50 minutes, for the TGV to Paris.€165

Total per car€810

Nothing to pay now: a deposit of €243 once your driver confirms, the balance on the day. Change any service on the booking page before you send the request.

What’s included

What the trip includes

Your private driver and the electric car for every service of the plan
Tolls, parking and waiting
Flight and train tracking on the transfers, and a name board at arrivals
Child seats on request

What you arrange yourself

Your hotels
Tastings, paid to each domaine
Meals and restaurant tables
Tickets, guided tours and visits
Your trains and flights

Good to know

On Saturday mornings a market fills the streets beside Cluny Abbey, and another the centre of Tournus.
Cormatin and Brancion open from early April to early or mid-November: outside those months, the full plan keeps Tournus, Chapaize and Cluny.
Churches pause visits during services: Sunday morning is the hardest time for Tournus and Chapaize.

Questions

All questions

Lovers of Romanesque art and abbeys. Groups where some would rather visit than taste. Travellers arriving by TGV at Le Creusot or by plane at Lyon.

All questions

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